Out of the total 63 cases, 34 are from Goa, 9 from Maharashtra, 8 from Karnataka, 6 from Kerala, 4 from Tamil Nadu and 2 from Telangana, the Ministry added in its statement.
The press statement of the Union Health Ministry also highlighted that the number of active cases in India on Monday went up to 4,054 as compared to 3,742 on Sunday.
One death was also reported in Kerala, where the Covid sub-variant JN.1 was first detected, pushing the nationwide death toll to 5,33,334.
Amid an increase in viral infections, Union Health Secretary Sudhansh Pant wrote a letter to state governments underlining the Covid-19 control-and-management strategies considering the upcoming festive season.
Pant also advised the governments to put in place the requisite public health measures to minimise the risk of an increase in the transmission of the disease.
JN.1, a descendant of the Omicron lineage and has been classified as a ‘variant of interest’ by the World Health Organisation, has become one of the fastest-spreading viruses in the last few weeks.
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